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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. Robert Jay Lifton

Journey Thought Feeling Doctors Increasingly Embarked More Had Study Did Personal Want Wanted Which Holocaust Reason Needed

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities. Robert Johnson

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. Robert Johnson

History Pendulum Individual Always Caught Been Get Series Swings

History seems to be so clumsy. Robert Johnson

History Seems Clumsy

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities. Rollo May

Problems Signs Possibilities Outward Unused Inner

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. Rollo May

Freedom Dignity Other Human Human Dignity Based

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. Rollo May

People Problem Practice Own Say Colleagues My Own Well Emptiness Sound Clinical Surprising Chief Decade May Psychiatric Middle Psychological Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Basis

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. Rollo May

Freedom Achieve Our Destiny Daring Must Refuse Engaging Profundity

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him. Rollo May

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence. Rollo May

History Problem Sense Our Significance Point Individual Particular Particular Problem Inwardly Loss Impotence America Sensed Which Widespread

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Sigmund Freud

Man Culture Disposition Independent Tendency Powerful Instinctual Obstacle Aggression Innate

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. Sigmund Freud

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. Sigmund Freud

Home Nothing Analogy More True Feel Make Decide

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. Sigmund Freud

Nature Whatever Unconscious Itself May

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. Sigmund Freud

Life Pressure Believe Has-Been Cost Civilization Instincts Been Created Satisfaction

That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct. Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. Solomon Asch

Failure Lose Thinking Setting See About More Facts Most Isolated Understood Error Than Place Social Meaning Serious Function Acts

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. Stanislav Grof

Training Invaluable Were Reported Psychedelic Patients Dying

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